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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
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the entire management of which shall be vested in
the
said trustees.
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Power of
trustees.
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SEC. 3. And be it enacted,
That a majority of the
trustees, shall have power from time to time, to enact
and make by-laws, and rules and regulations for the
management and government of the said asylum, and
the persons residing therein, whether as officers, servants
or patients, the same not being inconsistent with the
public laws of this State or with this act; they shall also
have power to remove any one of their own number, who
in the opinion of a majority of said trustees may be negligent
of his duty, or otherwise conduct himself improperly;
to fill all vacancies occasioned by such removals
or otherwise; to elect annually a president and secretary,
who shall perform the duties usually incumbent on
such officers, and according to such rules and by-laws
as may be prescribed by said trustees, and to remove
them at pleasure; to appoint and employ all such officers
and servants as they may deem necessary or proper,
to dismiss them at their pleasure, to fix and to prescribe
their duties and compensation, and generally to exercise
all the powers conferred on the said corporation by this
act, for the purpose indicated in the second section.
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Number of
trustees.
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SEC. 4. And be it enacted,
That the number of the
trustees shall be not less than five nor more than seven,
and if at any time they shall be reduced to four, acting
trustees, by death, resignation, removal out of the city
or county in which the said institution may be located,
established under the provision of this act, it shall be
the duty of the remaining trustees to fill each vacancy
within sixty days after its occurrence, and if they do
not fill such vacancy within said period, it shall be the
duty of the president, under the penalty of a fine of five
hundred dollars, to the State, to notify the Governor of
this State of the fact of such vacancy, and thereupon
it shall be the duty of the Governor, forthwith, by
writing under his hand, to appoint some person to fill
every such vacancy or vacancies, as often as they may
occur, in manner aforesaid; and unless the trustees shall
have filled such vacancy, before they or any of them,
shall have been notified of the appointment made by
the Governor, in manner aforesaid, the person so appointed,
shall be, and become one of the trustees to all
intents and purposes.
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Duty of
trustees.
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SEC. 5. And be it enacted,
That it shall be the
duty of the trustees, on the first Monday in January, in
each and every year, to exhibit to the Governor of the
State, to be filed in the archives of the Executive Department,
a full report, in writing, of their proceedings
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